[Occupymendocino] Statistics

[Mark Safron]

Richard, you’re 21 times more likely to be shot by a cop if you’re black. Great odds…If you’re white.

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.

The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.

Here’s the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335737/-Propublica-Analysis-Young-Black-Men-21-Times-more-likely-to-be-Killed-by-Cops <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/10/1335737/-Propublica-Analysis-Young-Black-Men-21-Times-more-likely-to-be-Killed-by-Cops>

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